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Book Long Term Threats to Canada s James Bay from Human Development

Download or read book Long Term Threats to Canada s James Bay from Human Development written by Jan Beyea and published by . This book was released on 1989-07-01 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Struggle for the Land

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ward Churchill
  • Publisher : City Lights Books
  • Release : 2002-09
  • ISBN : 9780872864146
  • Pages : 470 pages

Download or read book Struggle for the Land written by Ward Churchill and published by City Lights Books. This book was released on 2002-09 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Landmark work illustrates the history of North American indigenous resistance and the struggle for land rights.

Book Achieving Sustainable Development

Download or read book Achieving Sustainable Development written by Ann Dale and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Achieving Sustainable Development explores how well Canada has met the Earth Summit's targets and attempts to find ways in which the public can become involved in such issues. Its authors stress the importance of integration of information from various fields and seek to stimulate the exchange of knowledge among the academic community, government, non-governmental organizations and industry. The contributors look far beyond merely identifying and analyzing selected issues and problems. To facilitate public discussion and to affect policy development, at least one initiative is proposed and detailed for each problem identified.

Book Growing Demands on a Shrinking Heritage

Download or read book Growing Demands on a Shrinking Heritage written by Canadian Institute of Resources Law and published by Calgary : Canadian Institute of Resources Law. This book was released on 1992 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Social and Environmental Impacts of the James Bay Hydroelectric Project

Download or read book Social and Environmental Impacts of the James Bay Hydroelectric Project written by James F. Hornig and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1999 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Planning and construction of the James Bay Hydroelectric project began in the early 1970s, when the effect of such projects on the physical and social environment was seldom considered. As the project matured, however, its unique and diverse environmental impacts came under intense scrutiny on both sides of the border.

Book Electric Rivers

Download or read book Electric Rivers written by Sean McCutcheon and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published by Black Rose Books, 3981 Blvd. St. Laurent, Suite 444, Montreal, Quebec H2W 1Y5. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book In the Way of Development

Download or read book In the Way of Development written by Mario Blaser and published by IDRC. This book was released on 2004 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authored as a result of a remarkable collaboration between indigenous people's own leaders, other social activists and scholars from a wide range of disciplines, this volume explores what is happening today to indigenous peoples as they are enmeshed, almost inevitably, in the remorseless expansion of the modern economy and development, at the behest of the pressures of the market-place and government. It is particularly timely, given the rise in criticism of free market capitalism generally, as well as of development. The volume seeks to capture the complex, power-laden, often contradictory features of indigenous agency and relationships. It shows how peoples do not just resist or react to the pressures of market and state, but also initiate and sustain "life projects" of their own which embody local history and incorporate plans to improve their social and economic ways of living.

Book Status Report on the Harbour Seal  Lacs Des Loups Marins Harbour Population   Phoca Vitulina Mellonae  in Canada

Download or read book Status Report on the Harbour Seal Lacs Des Loups Marins Harbour Population Phoca Vitulina Mellonae in Canada written by Richard J. Smith and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updates the conservation status of Phoca vitulina mellonae, a subspecies of the harbour seal that spends the entire year in fresh water in the area of Lac des Loups Marins, northern Quebec. Information is included on the seal's geographic distribution, population size and trends, protection status, habitat, general biology, factors limiting the seal population size and distribution, and the special significance of the species for Canada. Concludes with discussion of the current consensus regarding the status of the species and a proposed designation of the species as vulnerable, with the rationale for such a status.

Book As Long as the Rivers Run

    Book Details:
  • Author : James B. Waldram
  • Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
  • Release : 1993-11-29
  • ISBN : 0887553133
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book As Long as the Rivers Run written by James B. Waldram and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 1993-11-29 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In past treaties, the Aboriginal people of Canada surrendered title to their lands in return for guarantees that their traditional ways of life would be protected. Since the 1950s, governments have reneged on these commitments in order to acquire more land and water for hydroelectric development. James B. Waldram examines this controversial topic through an analysis of the politics of hydroelectric dam construction in the Canadian Northwest, focusing on three Aboriginal communities in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. He argues that little has changed in our treatment of Aboriginal people in the past hundred years, when their resources are still appropriated by the government “for the common good.” Using archival materials, personal interviews and largely inaccessible documents and letters, Waldram highlights the clear parallel between the treatment of Aboriginal people in the negotiations and agreements that accompany hydro development with the treaty and scrip processes of the past century.

Book Northeast Indian Quarterly

Download or read book Northeast Indian Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ecocide of Native America

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  • Author : Donald A. Grinde, Jr.
  • Publisher : Clear Light Publishing
  • Release : 1997-10
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 332 pages

Download or read book Ecocide of Native America written by Donald A. Grinde, Jr. and published by Clear Light Publishing. This book was released on 1997-10 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is not only a work of history, it makes history.... We desperately need to hear this story if we are to save the earth, the sky, the water, the air -- save ourselves.... I thank Donald Grinde and Bruce Johansen for their eloquent and powerful contribution to our education. (Howard Zinn) A dense, hard-hitting well-documented work ... Ecocide of Native America offers a much needed option to European perspectives of history.... It is a valuable alternative textbook, if you can hold with its difficult truths. (New Mexican) The book includes the moving testimony of those who continue to experience the slow death of their lands, their means of subsistence, their communities, even as environmentalists look to Native American ecological precedents for solutions to our common global catastrophe.

Book Social Conflict and Environmental Law

Download or read book Social Conflict and Environmental Law written by Allan Jacob Greenbaum and published by [North York, Ont.] : Captus Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Encyclopedia Of Native American Biography

Download or read book The Encyclopedia Of Native American Biography written by Bruce E. Johansen and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 1998-08-21 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide-ranging and reliable encyclopedia offers the most up-to-date information on prominent and lesser-known Native American military leaders, chiefs, shamans, explorers, scientists, athletes, inventors, artists, writers, and political activists, as well as on a select number of significant non-Indians (from Benjamin Franklin to Marlon Brando). Sample entries include Big Foot, Black Elk, Cochise, Cornplanter, Crazy Horse, Vine Deloria, Jr., Michael A. Dorris, Louise Erdrich, Geronimo, Louis Hall, Chief Joseph, Lame Deer, Russell Means, Osceola, Ely Parker, Leonard Peltier, Plenty Coups, Pocahontas, Red Cloud, Will Rogers, Wendy Rose, John Ross, Sacajawea, Sequoyah, Sitting Bull, Tecumseh, Jim Thorpe, Victorio, Wooden Leg, and over 550 others. Together, they comprise a startling and unforgettable mosaic of nearly four centuries of Native American history.

Book Ahornbl  tter

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 462 pages

Download or read book Ahornbl tter written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Turtle Quarterly

Download or read book Turtle Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Arctic and Alpine Biodiversity  Patterns  Causes and Ecosystem Consequences

Download or read book Arctic and Alpine Biodiversity Patterns Causes and Ecosystem Consequences written by F.Stuart III Chapin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-08 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As human populations expand and have increasing access to technol ogy, two general environmental concerns have arisen. First, human pop ulations are having increasing impact on the earth system, such that we are altering the biospheric carbon pools, basic processes of elemental cycling and the climate system of the earth. Because of time lags and feedbacks, these processes are not easily reversed. These alterations are occurring now more rapidly than at any time in the last several million years. Secondly, human activities are causing changes in the earth's biota that lead to species extinctions at a rate and magnitude rivaling those of past geologic extinction events. Although environmental change is potentially reversible at some time scales, the loss of species is irrevo cable. Changes in diversity at other scales are also cause for concern. Habitat fragmentation and declines in population sizes alter genetic di versity. Loss or introduction of new functional groups, such as nitro gen fixers or rodents onto islands can strongly alter ecosystem processes. Changes in landscape diversity through habitat modification and frag mentation alter the nature of processes within and among vegetation patches. Although both ecological changes altering the earth system and the loss of biotic diversity have been major sources of concern in recent years, these concerns have been largely independent, with little concern for the environmental causes the ecosystem consequences of changes in biodiversity. These two processes are clearly interrelated. Changes in ecological systems cause changes in diversity.